Delegate Rob Bloxom and Senator Lynwood Lewis will be holding a Town Hall on October 22nd to discuss and answer your questions about Veterans issues in the State of Virginia.
Cobia being reported in more northern waters
Red drum, cobia, speckled trout, and Spanish mackerel are being reported as far north as Man O’ War Shoals, which is just outside the Patapsco River near Baltimore. Speckled trout have been reported inside Hodges Bar near Rock Hall.
The influx of cobia, red drum and, and trout further north has been driven in large part by higher salinity due to lack of rain in combination with high water temperatures.
Reports from New Jersey and Delaware waters are another signal that gamefish may be expanding their range northward.
While rockfish are under scrutiny, gamefish reports in northern waters indicate that the fishery is relatively robust. With numbers and biomass increasing, it is a natural tendency to seek out more food in new waters.
ARC Blood Drive at RSMH on Oct. 16
Onancock, VA – The American Red Cross (ARC) plans a blood drive for October 16 at Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital from 11am – 3pm in the hospital’s conference room.
Donors during October will be eligible to win one of five $500 gift cards being raffled off by the American Red Cross nationwide.
Donors of all blood types are welcome, as are Power Red donors.
Volunteer donors are the only source of blood and platelets for patients in need of transfusions. Blood is needed for accident victims, surgical patients, and those receiving treatment for leukemia, cancer or sickle cell disease. There is no artificial substitute for blood.
Blood donation requirements include a minimum weight of 110 pounds and minimum age of 17. A 16-year old may donate blood with written parental consent. There is no upper age limit for donating blood.
People who use insulin, daily aspirin, antidepressants, and medicine for hormone replacement, blood pressure, thyroid, and cholesterol CAN give blood.
Donors are encouraged to eat a meal prior to giving blood and drink plenty of water.
No appointment is necessary, but having one will speed the process. Make an appointment at www.redcrossblood.org and use sponsor code SMHosp.
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Shore Health Services and Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital are affiliated with Riverside Health System (RHS) in Newport News, Virginia. RHS is a 501c(3) tax exempt, non-profit organization dedicated to improving health and saving lives. RHS is governed by a voluntary Board of Directors, as is each of the Riverside affiliates throughout the region.
On the Eastern Shore, Riverside’s services are anchored by Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital and our Riverside Medical Group Doctor’s offices. Services include: Emergency Care, Critical Care, Surgery, Newborn Care, Cancer Care, Diagnostic Imaging, Family Medicine and Specialty Physicians, Physical Therapy and Home Care.
Go to www.riversideonline.com/shore for more information.
Criminal Investigations: Behind the Scenes of Shore Arson Event
State, local officials to discuss Shore arson spree & more
On October 11th From 6 to 7:30 p.m., a panel of state and local officials will discuss the inner workings of large-scale investigations, including the Shore’s arson spree of 2012-13, in conjunction with the Eastern Shore firefighting exhibit currently on display at Ker Place.
Panelists hosted by the Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society will include Rob Barnes, investigator with the Virginia State Police; Robbie Lewis of the Virginia Department of Forestry; Jeff Flournoy, director of the Eastern Shore 911 Center; C. Ray Pruitt, director of the Accomack County Department of Public Safety; as well as a representative from the Accomack County Sheriff’s Department.
The panel will offer an inside look at cross-departmental investigations, including profiling, fieldwork, etc.
Admission to the event is $5 for each Historical Society member and $10 a person for non-members.
The event will be at the Onancock Baptist Church Family Life Center, 1 Crockett Ave. in Onancock.
Purchase tickets at shorehistory.org/ticketsales.
BayPort Credit Union, Pearson Toyota and Our Lady of Perpetual Help JOIN THE ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S®
NORFOLK, VA, October 8, 2019 – Three Tidewater area businesses are pleased to support the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s as Elite Sponsors for the 2019 Walk to End Alzheimer’s in Newport News, Virginia Beach, Williamsburg, Suffolk, Onancock and Farmville. Walk to End Alzheimer’s is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research programs. Employees from all three companies are also participating in the Walks by organizing a Walk Team and raising additional money for the cause.
“We walk for the 63 residents at Our Lady who live with Alzheimer’s and dementia every day. We walk for our family members and hundreds of families that struggle with this disease and we walk for caregivers that give all they have to care for and hang onto the person they knew,” said Jackie Burk, Director of Community Relations at Our Lady. “Every step we take and every dollar donated puts us closer to a cure.”
More than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease – the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. Additionally, more than 16 million family members and friends provide care to people with Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
For more information on the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s, visit www.alz.org/walk.
Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s®
The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Since 1989, the Alzheimer’s Association mobilized millions of Americans in the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk®; now the Alzheimer’s Association is continuing to lead the way with Walk to End Alzheimer’s. Together, we can end Alzheimer’s.
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The Alzheimer’s Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer’s research, care and support. Our mission is to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health. Our vision is a world without Alzheimer’s®. Visit www.alz.org or call 800.272.3900.
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Cape Charles Classical Conversations Oct. 14
Cape Charles Classical Conversations has begun and is hosting an open house to the community and anyone interested in homeschooling. Classical Conversations’ curriculum is distinctly Christian and developed in the classical model of education that has stood the test of time for thousands of years.
M9:15 a.m. to 12 Noon
Classical Conversations also offers a huge amount of support through its communities. You don’t have to go it alone; CC communities offer support, encouragement, and accountability and now we have one right here in Cape Charles! Join us for a first-hand look at Cape Charles Classical Conversations Community. Bring your children to observe a class or childcare is provided for a $5/child. RSVP to Jordan Dail, at 754-5362 or 215grayson@gmail.com
Monarch Butterfly Migration Talk October 14
Friends of Kiptopeke State Park invite you to come hear Michael Ferrara from the Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory talk about the Monarch Butterfly and its Migration. The talk is at pavilion #2 (toward the back of the recreation/hawk watch area) at Kiptopeke State Park.
The talk is scheduled for 5:30.
Essay: Swaths of The Wrath of A WASP
Special Essay by Charles Landis
Protest of a White Anglo Saxon Protestant.
This is the first of several essays I contemplate during the 2020 election process.
In the interest of disambiguation and with a penchant for pithiness, I am proud to say that I am a WASP and I doth protest the prejudice.
In this age of identity politics, I am identified as a conservative white Anglo Saxon protestant. A WASP .This cultural identity is disparaged, deprecated, and used in the pejorative by Progressive Socialist Democrats as deplorable white nationalists/supremacists, racists. sexist, xenophobic …etc. Indeed, even such WASPs as the founding fathers are reduced to this characterization by Socialist Democrat Party presidential Candidates Sanders, Warren, Booker, Harris, Biden.. et al.
My WASP heritage traces back to Germanic tribes in Europe which migrated to England between the 6th and 11th century. While Pepin de Landis ( c 600 AD, Duke of Brabant and governor of Austrasia under Dagobart, King of the Franks) may be the first of my Saxon ancestors, the first of my Anglo Saxon ancestors were the Ligons who came to England in 1066 with William the Conquer. The first of my Ligon ancestors to settle in America was Col. Thomas Ligon who came to Jamestown in 1641 at the age of 16 with his cousin Governor Sir William Berkley.
In “ A Landis Family History”, which I recently published, I document the lineage of my branch of the Landis family in America from the Landis family that settled near Zurich, Switzerland in 1392 and the genealogy of Hans Landis ( Zurich, 1521-1590) to myself. Because of religious prosecution (they were Mennonites who were pacifist and believed in separation of church and state) they migrated to the Palatine region along the Rhine River in Germany. Descendant Jacob Landis (1685-1749) was first to migrate to America in 1710.
The union of the Landis and Ligon families occurred when my grandfather, Augustus Landis (1833-1892) married Annie Fenner Ligon in 1882. My Anglo Saxon pedigree has been fully documented in the “History of the Ligon Family and Connections” written in collaboration with Sir William Ligon, 7th Earl, Madresfield Court, England, published 1947, in which I was among t the last to be recorded (pg.666). The Landis genealogy was researched in collaboration with the Eastern Mennonite University up to the birth of my great grandfather, Augustine Landis, in Oxford, North Carolina in1806.
Among my WASP ancestors is a member of the Council of Virginia, appointed in1606 by King James, which founded Virginia. Eight generations of Landis and Ligon families have served this country since the War of Independence. WASPS have been involved in the defense of human rights from Magna Charta Libertaum in 1215 to the challenges of today.
In “American Colonies” (2001), acclaimed historian, Professor Alan Taylor, transcends the usual Anglocentric settlement of the Atlantic Seaboard in the early years and explains more fully the diversity of the peoples that colonized the American Continent: Native Americans, African Americans, and the Spanish, French and Netherland empires as well as the English. This is a must read for anyone who wants to understand our heritage and who the American people were that founded these United States.
In “The Development of Constitutional Guarantees of Liberty” Roscoe Pound among the most eminent authorities on the letter and philosophy of law, divides the development of constitution guarantees of liberty into four periods:1) the Norman Conquest of England to the Reformation. 2)From the Reformation to the Revolution of 1688 (English Bill of Rights. 3) The American Colonial Period to the Declaration of Rights of the Continental Congress (1774). 4) The era of the Declaration of Independence, written Constitution(s) and the Federal Bill of Rights. One could as well also consider these divisions as dividing WASP involvement in the development in the Constitutional guarantee of Liberty and human rights.
The Charters of English (WASP) colonies included guarantees of the rights of Englishmen. These rights were fundamental in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.The Founders did not simply assemble at Philadelphia and figure out what rights they wanted. WASPS such as Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Franklin, Hamilton.. et al were all well read in the political philosophies and writings of other WASPS such as John Locke (concept of civil liberties). Sir William Blackstone ( Commentaries on the Laws of England), John Stuart Mill (advocate of progressive liberalism and against despotism of all kinds), and the failures of democracy in Greece and Rome. One could say the founding documents was a WASP thing and unique among the colonizing models.
The first time I was called a WASP (more than 50 years ago) was by a very liberal friend who was editor of the National Education Association Journal. While still a pejorative, one did not consider this as anything like today where it is tantamount to being considered fascist white supremist. I mark this change from the time Obama was elected, vowed to fundamentally change America, and on day one ordered the removal of bust of Winston Churchill from the White House and returned to the British Embassy. To Obama, Churchill was a symbol of white imperialist power in Africa.
In front of the British Embassy is a statute of Churchill with one leg forward in American soil and the other to the rear on British soil. This symbolizes the relationship between the two countries from the founding to today. In this age of political correctness, I suspect the usual protests will someday be made and the leg of Churchill in America will be cut off! l
Res Publica.
History Notes this week of Oct.12
3761 BC: The “epoch reference date” for the modern Hebrew calendar.
680: Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of the prophet Mohammad, is decapitated in battle against the army of Caliph Yazid I. Ali’s death is one of the defining events in Islam’s great Sunni-Shi’a split. The core of the dispute centers on who rules as the legitimate successor to the prophet himself: blood heirs (Shi’a position) or political-scholarly leaders (Sunni position). The death is commemorated as the feast of Ashurah.
732: A Frankish army of 30,000 under the command of Charles “The Hammer” Martel, decisively defeats the invading Muslim army of Abdul Rahman al Ghafiqi at the Battle of Tours (also known as the Battle of Poitiers (pronounced “pwat’-teeaay”)). The Battle of Lepanto was one of three- many would say it was the most important- engagements that halted the militant spread of Islam and ensured that Europe would continue to develop as a collection of explicitly Christian kingdoms. The conventional wisdom over the last century or so is that had Martel’s army not been successful here, the tallest towers in the cities of Europe would have been minarets instead of church steeples.
1492: Five weeks after heading west from the Canary Islands, Christopher Columbus makes landfall near Samana Cay in the southern region of the Bahamas Islands. He spends the next three months exploring primarily along the north coast of Cuba and the island of Hispaniola, trading with the natives and taking careful soundings and locations of the harbors and provisions available for follow-on exploration. This is a story of vision and courage and endurance against unknown and often fatal odds. Today’s discovery was the trigger for the Great Age of Exploration and the scientific revolution that swept into its wake. It is also not much of a stretch to credit the Reformation and the Enlightenment to the exploratory impulse of this great mariner, whom the Spanish Crown named “Admiral of the Ocean Seas.”
1571:Battle of Lepanto– The last exclusive galley-versus-galley naval battle, fought between the navies of the Ottoman Turks and a Christian coalition formed by Don Juan of Austria. The lopsided victory stopped the Ottoman coastal surge in its tracks, and is considered one of the three great battles that ensured the continued development of a Christian Europe under the spiritual guidance of the Pope, as opposed to a Muslim Europe under the political and spiritual control of the Caliphate of Ottoman Turkey.
1600: The tiny principality of San Marino, which looks like a small Tuscan city tucked on the side of a cliff, adopts a written constitution, making it the first republic of the modern age.
1604: A star in the constellation Ophiuchus explodes in a paroxysm visible to the naked eye, the brightest star in the night sky, rivaling even Venus. The astronomer Johannes Kepler observes the star for over a year, detailing its intensity and movement in such detail that it was named Kepler’s Supernova. Located ~20,000 light-years from Earth, it is the most recent supernova to have occurred in our own Milky Way galaxy.
1691: Great Britain issues a Royal Charter establishing the Province of Massachusetts, ‘way across the sea in the New World, where the Plymouth Plantation was continuing to prosper.
1701: Connecticut colony issues a charter to the Collegiate School of Connecticut, located in Old Saybrook. You would probably recognize the school as Yale University, alter-ego to that older institution up in Massachusetts.
1739: Birth of Grigory Potemkin (d.1791), Russian nobleman, military leader, and lifelong “favorite” of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia. The idiom that now bears his name came from his time as Governor-General of the newly annexed Crimea region. On the eve of renewed war with the Ottoman Empire, the Empress made an “unannounced” visit up the Dnieper River with her Court, multiple ambassadors and a disguised Austrian Emperor Joseph II to show them the strength of her new territories. Potemkin painted up actual riverfront villages to make them look better, and also created a kind of mobile village that could be set up quickly and populated with members of his army and staff dressed up as peasants as the royal flotilla went by. It could just as quickly be knocked down and moved to the next location. There is, naturally, some controversy about the degree to which Potemkin was trying to deceive, although he was quite frank about wanting to put on the best front for his exalted guests.
1763: King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763 stating, among other things, that aboriginal lands north and west of the Appalachians and Alleghenies were closed to white settlement. The edict came on the heels of the Treaty of Paris that ended the 7 Years War (a.k.a. French and Indian War), which ceded to Britain all French claims to the eastern drainage of the Mississippi River. The king and Parliament reasoned that by keeping white settlers out, it would not only stabilize relations with the Indian tribes of the Ohio Valley, but would inhibit the rampant land speculation that was sure to get worse as the new territory was surveyed. British colonists along the seaboard did not see it quite that way, helping set the conditions for further unrest and dissatisfaction with the Crown in the years to come.
1780: At the Battle of Kings Mountain, near Blacksburg, South Carolina, an American Patriot militia, loosely organized as a collection of scores of smaller militias from “over the mountain” regions, and under the nominal command of ten different colonels, decisively defeat a superior force of Loyalist militia under the command of British Major Patrick Ferguson. The Loyalist force was part of Lord Cornwallis’ Southern Strategy, which attempted to exploit Loyalist sentiment in the coastal regions by creating local militias that would take the fight to- and thence out of- their Patriot-leaning neighbors inland, led and supported by British Regulars. The previous months saw repeated vindication of this strategy with the capture of Charleston, the Battle of Camden, the Battle of Waxhaws, and Tarleton’s Massacre. Major Ferguson expected to make a short, violent thrust inland from the Waxhaw area to put down the last of the Patriots. What he didn’t know is that the news of Tarleton’s Massacre inflamed Patriots hundreds of miles away, and the intervening weeks gave the distant militias time to gather and loosely organize a defense. Ferguson finally learned of the gathering force, and took a strong defensive position atop Kings Mountain. When the Patriot attack started, Ferguson rode up & down the line, fully exposed to fire, blowing commands with a silver whistle. The Patriot militias, meanwhile, broke into 20 separate groups and charged screaming up the hill, pausing behind rocks to load their rifles, carefully aiming at and picking off individual Loyalists, and eventually Ferguson himself. It was a terribly lopsided victory, completely unexpected by either side, but it unleashed Patriot momentum throughout all the colonies, and most especially in the Carolinas, where Cornwallis’ Regulars were on the cusp of an even more strategic defeat at Cowpens.
1780: A massive hurricane tears through the Lesser Antilles, creating a swath of destruction from the Grenadines to Bermuda that leaves 23,200 souls dead and no fewer than 65 naval vessels from France, the Netherlands and Great Britain lost at sea or smashed to splinters on a lee shore, to say nothing of the devastation ashore, where thousands of homes and business were swept away by the storm’s surge. The Great Hurricane of 1780 remains the single most destructive weather event in the history of the Atlantic Ocean.
1799: HMS Lutine founders and sinks in off the Frisian Islands in the North Sea, taking with her to her watery grave 240 souls and £1,200,000 pounds in gold bullion. Lutine’s bell was recovered in 1858 and is displayed in the central hall of Lloyds of London, where until 1986 it sounded a single toll on news of a lost ship, and two when a missing ship was reported safe. No fewer than 14 salvage attempts have been made to recover the treasure. The most successful was the 1857-58 expedition, which brought up 45 gold bars, 64 silver bars, and over 15,000 coins of various denominations, yielding the investors a return of 136%. The last salvage attempt was in 1933.
1812: In the Battle of Lake Erie, an American squadron of 9 ships under Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry achieves a decisive victory against a fleet of 6 British gunboats, ensuring American control of the entire southern coastline of the Great Lakes for the remainder of the war. Perry’s formal report of the battle is brief: “Dear General, We have met the enemy and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop. Yours with great respect and esteem, O.H. Perry”
1844: Birth of Henry J. Heinz (d.1916). The logo on his ketchup bottles says “57 Varieties.”
1845: The first class of The Naval School is seated in Annapolis, Maryland; 50 midshipmen and 7 instructors begin the process of formalizing the training of nascent officers of the U.S. Navy.
1871: Three days after “Mrs. O’Leary’s cow” knocked over the lantern in the barn, The Great Chicago Fire finally burns itself out. The cataclysm took over 300 lives, left nearly three and a half square miles of the city center in cinders, and displaced over 100,000 people from their homes. The cow story, by the way, was fabricated by a journalist, knowing it would play well against the latent anti-Irish sentiment that infected much of Chicago society.
1879: At the Battle of Angamos, the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian navy in a crucial action that opened up the Bolivian port of Antofagasta to eventual occupation and annexation by Chile. I count myself among those of us Norte Americanos whose knowledge of South American history ends somewhere in the early 1800s when Simon Bolivar forced Spain to begin breaking up their centuries-old overseas empire. “And what happened then?” we ask. Well, without Spain to enforce colonial borders, the newly independent states resorted to the traditional methods of inter-state war to settle competing claims and boundary disputes. In this case, the issue at hand was the lucrative mining regions of the central Pacific coast, nominally under Bolivian control, but claimed as well by Peru and Chile. The naval battle this day provided a huge strategic advantage to Chile, which was eventually codified in the treaty that ended the 1879-83 War of the Pacific, also known colloquially as “The Saltpeter War” or “The Guano War,” due to the nature of one of the mining products in the region.
1884: Under the tutelage of Commodore Stephen Luce, the United States Naval War College is established in Newport, Rhode Island. The school nurtured among it first faculty Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, one of the most brilliant intellects ever to don a Navy uniform, and developer of the seminal theory of naval warfare that holds naval fleets as the key to controlling events ashore. A “Mahanian Navy” is one comprised primarily of capital ships that can duke it out on the high seas with other capital ships, after which they can turn their attention to the land campaign, if necessary.
1889: American inventor Thomas Edison publicly displays his motion picture device for the first time.
1908: The government of Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina into their polyglot empire. The two provinces are normally always mentioned in tandem, although those of you who have been over there know that the people who actually live in the places would rather not be connected with each other. Think back to DLH 8/12 Addendum, and the multiple threads of conflict that led to the final outbreak of open war.
1910: At Kinloch Field just west of Saint Louis, Theodore Roosevelt climbs aboard a Wright Model B aeroplane with pilot Archibald Hoxey and becomes the first (ex-)President to go flying.
1912: Opening guns of the 1st Balkan War, where the Balkan League (Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria) initiated combat in a bid for independence from the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans were no match for the multi-front armies of the four allies, who relatively swiftly defeated their Turkish overlords and then settled into their own rounds of territorial squabbling, aided and abetted by the Great Powers of Europe. You are correct to assume that the formal cessation of hostilities only shifted the focus of long-simmering regional anxieties.
1919: The Chicago White Sox throw the final game of the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds, cementing for themselves the opprobrium of the nation, and the permanent moniker of the Black Socks.
1928: Three years after the death of his long time mentor, Sun Yat Sen, General Chang Kai Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China
1939: Flush with a victory over the Polish army, Nazi Germany annexes western Poland into the Third Reich, conveniently setting the conditions, per the terms of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty, for the Soviet Union to occupy the eastern half of that country.
1940: Publication of a secret memorandum by LCDR Arthur H. McCollum, in which he outlines the depth and breadth of the Japanese Empire’s advance throughout “the Orient,” and offering a prescription for what the United States should do about it, namely, generate enough of a confrontation with Japan that they will attack U.S. interests somewhere. Such an attack would ease the U.S. entry into the burgeoning World War, and free us up to materially and overtly support Britain in her life & death struggle with Germans. The McCollum Memo is often bandied about as a “smoking gun” that proves Roosevelt knew about the Pearl Harbor attack in advance and did nothing to stop it, among other flawed theories. McCollum worked as an analyst at the Office of Naval Intelligence on the desk that monitored the Orient.
1945: In the aftermath of the Japanese surrender, the Communist Chinese under Mao Tse Tung and the Kuomintang of Chang Kai Shek sign an agreement on the post-war future of China. The “Double Tenth” agreement confirmed that the Kuomintang was the de facto ruling party of China, but that the Communists were a legitimate opposition party.
1962: Pope John XXIII convenes the Second Vatican Council, the first “summit conference” of the Roman Catholic Church since the First Vatican Council of 1878, and only the 21st Council since the beginning of Roman Christianity. Called with the specific intent of better aligning Catholic practice with the modern, post-World War II world, it remains a flashpoint of principled dissent within the traditional wing of the larger church body. Two primary arguments against the Council assert that: 1) since there was no formal doctrinal statement supporting the dilution of longstanding traditions of the Church, those changes were therefore not binding for faithful Catholics, and; 2) building even further on this thought, a small but intense school of thought believes that since the leadership of the Church broke with tradition with the work of the Council, the subsequent Popes have no canonical standing and cannot legitimately claim the papacy, thus legally rendering the office vacant. Of particular note is the post-John XXIII fate of four of the participants of the Council: Cardinal Giovanni Montini (Paul VI), Bishop Albino Luciani (John Paul I), Bishop Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II), and Father Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI).
1967: Communist warlord Che Guevarra, having worn out his welcome in Cuba, is finally captured in Bolivia. A day after his capture by the Bolivians, Che Guevara is executed.
1967: The Outer Space Treaty goes into effect. The parties to the treaty agree to not place nuclear weapons into orbit, and to refrain from using the moon or other celestial bodies as military testing or staging areas. The treaty is often misconstrued as prohibiting the “militarization” of space, but this is not the case. It does provide a framework for consultation and non-interference between spacefaring nations; it considers space part of the global commons, and the moon and other celestial bodies as part of the “common heritage of mankind”.
1972: A race riot breaks out aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) while conducting Operation Linebacker in the Gulf of Tonkin. With resentment simmering from a recent racial incident on shore leave in Subic Bay, Philippines, nearly 200 black sailors assaulted and injured a number of white crewmen, several of whom had to be evacuated to shore-based hospitals for treatment. Post-event investigation exposed resentment at perceived assignment of black sailors to menial and degrading duties, and the perception that white sailors got more lenient treatment at Captain’s Mast (non-judicial punishment under the UCMJ). CDR Benjamin Cloud (who was black), the Executive Officer of the ship, helped diffuse the situation and got most of the malcontents back to their stations prior to the next day’s flight operations. Nineteen sailors were eventually found guilty of charges related to the riot. It does not take much linguistic imagination to call this event a mutiny, but you won’t hear the word from official Navy sources. What the event did trigger was hair-trigger awareness of any perceived racial slights between black and white sailors. A second, eerily similar mutiny occurred within a month aboard USS Constellation (CVA-64).
1975: First broadcast of Saturday Night Live, with hosts George Carlin and Andy Kauffman.
1977: The Supreme Soviet adopts the 4th Soviet Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
1981: Death of Anwar Sadat (b.1918), President of Egypt, at the hand of a core of Army officers egged on by an Islamist fatwa issued by Omar Abdel-Rhaman, a.k.a. “The Blind Sheikh” who also was also convicted for the first attack on the World Trade Center. Sadat’s 1979 peace treaty with Israel negated in Islamist’s eyes any gains he made by launching the 1973 Yom Kippur War against the Jewish state. Abdel-Rhaman finally died last year in a New York prison, to the end issuing fatwas against the West and any Muslim who would dare to resist the Islamist movement.
1985: The Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro is hijacked by terrorists of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. The cretins who captured the ship took wheelchair-bound American tourist Leon Klinghoffer to the upper deck, shot him in the head, and then rolled him and his chair into the cold Mediterranean. [Lauro, in happier days; Klinghoffer on board at the start of the voyage RIP] Personal note: I had the privilege of being part of the team that forced the hijackers to land at Naval Air Station Sigonella during the wind-down of this event several weeks later.
Congresswoman Elaine Luria Highlights Environmental Priorities with Chesapeake Bay Advisory Board
VIRGINIA BEACH – Congresswoman Elaine Luria (VA-02) this week met with her office’s Chesapeake Bay Advisory Board to brief our region’s key stakeholders about her legislative efforts to protect and preserve the Chesapeake Bay.
She provided an update on the Chesapeake Bay Reauthorization Act (H.R. 1620), which she introduced in March. Last month, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed Congresswoman Luria’s legislation and recommended it for a vote in the full House of Representatives.
This bipartisan bill would fully fund the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program by authorizing an injection of $455 million into the Program over the next five years. The Chesapeake Bay Program coordinates data collection and distributes grants to states for local Bay restoration efforts.
Congresswoman Luria also discussed how she successfully advocated for the House passage of $110 million in funding for important environmental priorities. This funding included $85 million for the EPA Chesapeake Bay Program, a $12 million increase over the last fiscal year.
“The Chesapeake Bay is an invaluable economic, environmental, and recreational resource that we must keep clean and thriving for future generations,” Congresswoman Elaine Luria said. “It was a pleasure to meet with members of our Chesapeake Bay Advisory Board to discuss how we can improve the health of our Bay. I will continue to lead bipartisan efforts that preserve and protect this national treasure.”
At the meeting, experts in agriculture, aquaculture, and conservation shared updates on topics including fisheries management and ongoing environmental restoration efforts. Congresswoman Luria also highlighted successes in her continued fight to protect Coastal Virginia waters from offshore drilling.
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